PreMortem.Games
MAY 8, 2023
Something that seems to offer a challenge, but is actually a perfectly balanced system so that no one ever feels frustrated. The size gives the advantage that you can see much more terrain, so the action is much more interesting. “The modern gaming ecosystem is killing true video games”, he says earnestly. I don’t know.
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Where players can navigate the terrain and feel a sense of history beneath their feet.” By building, crafting, exploring and fighting your goal is to become a skilled Realmwalker that finds their way through the portals to the magical city of Nightingale, the last known bastion of humanity.
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Radiator Blog
MAY 5, 2021
But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. The starting area is like 2-3x the density of vanilla Skyrim. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game.
Grid Sage Games
MARCH 10, 2022
Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.
Radiator Blog
AUGUST 12, 2022
Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.
Grid Sage Games
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Being able to backtrack is generally going to be more realistic in the RPG sense--of course your character should be able to go back and pick up that item they left behind, or fight that enemy that scared you away before. In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!)
Deconstructor of Fun
JUNE 3, 2019
After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced. I do see why it’s difficult to scale and balance the matching gameplay with all kinds of level modifiers being present.
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